Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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